Downing Street’s rejected claims of a ‘shambles’ with its ‘one-in one-out’ scheme, which sees a small boat Channel migrant sent back in exchange for someone whose application’s approved.
Home Office lawyers argued he could have claimed asylum in France.
Chris Philp, Croydon South MP and Shadow Home Secretary, said:
“Two flights, zero deportations. Labour’s France returns deal failed to remove a single migrant, yet thousands more continue to arrive. The government must come clean on whether even one person has been sent to us from France in return.
“Yesterday I told the new Home Secretary that unless they disapply the Human Rights Act for immigration cases, this deal would collapse in court. She refused, and here is the predictable result.
“This is another failed gimmick from this weak government who seem think a press release is the same as action.
“Only the Conservatives have a clear plan to deport all illegal arrivals, tackle the lawfare blocking immigration policy, and put a real deterrent in place through our Deportation Bill. Without that, the crossings will never stop.”
